logging: clarify -debug and -debugexclude descriptions

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/init/common.cpp b/src/init/common.cpp
index 00ef879dc1..36142c2b9a 100644
--- a/src/init/common.cpp
+++ b/src/init/common.cpp
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ void AddLoggingArgs(ArgsManager& argsman)
 {
     argsman.AddArg("-debuglogfile=<file>", strprintf("Specify location of debug log file (default: %s). Relative paths will be prefixed by a net-specific datadir location. Pass -nodebuglogfile to disable writing the log to a file.", DEFAULT_DEBUGLOGFILE), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
     argsman.AddArg("-debug=<category>", "Output debug and trace logging (default: -nodebug, supplying <category> is optional). "
-        "If <category> is not supplied or if <category> = 1, output all debug and trace logging. <category> can be: " + LogInstance().LogCategoriesString() + ". This option can be specified multiple times to output multiple categories.",
+        "If <category> is not supplied or if <category> is 1 or \"all\", output all debug logging. If <category> is 0 or \"none\", any other categories are ignored. Other valid values for <category> are: " + LogInstance().LogCategoriesString() + ". This option can be specified multiple times to output multiple categories.",
         ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::DEBUG_TEST);
-    argsman.AddArg("-debugexclude=<category>", "Exclude debug and trace logging for a category. Can be used in conjunction with -debug=1 to output debug and trace logging for all categories except the specified category. This option can be specified multiple times to exclude multiple categories.", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::DEBUG_TEST);
+    argsman.AddArg("-debugexclude=<category>", "Exclude debug and trace logging for a category. Can be used in conjunction with -debug=1 to output debug and trace logging for all categories except the specified category. This option can be specified multiple times to exclude multiple categories. This takes priority over \"-debug\"", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::DEBUG_TEST);
     argsman.AddArg("-logips", strprintf("Include IP addresses in debug output (default: %u)", DEFAULT_LOGIPS), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::DEBUG_TEST);
     argsman.AddArg("-loglevel=<level>|<category>:<level>", strprintf("Set the global or per-category severity level for logging categories enabled with the -debug configuration option or the logging RPC. Possible values are %s (default=%s). The following levels are always logged: error, warning, info. If <category>:<level> is supplied, the setting will override the global one and may be specified multiple times to set multiple category-specific levels. <category> can be: %s.", LogInstance().LogLevelsString(), LogInstance().LogLevelToStr(BCLog::DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL), LogInstance().LogCategoriesString()), ArgsManager::DISALLOW_NEGATION | ArgsManager::DISALLOW_ELISION | ArgsManager::DEBUG_ONLY, OptionsCategory::DEBUG_TEST);
     argsman.AddArg("-logtimestamps", strprintf("Prepend debug output with timestamp (default: %u)", DEFAULT_LOGTIMESTAMPS), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::DEBUG_TEST);